1. He convinced local landholders to give the monkeys safe haven by setting aside land as a preserve. 2. More often they failed and the Roberts seized their land as security. 3. The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers. 4. The leaders accepted baptism for themselves and their people, and promised to hold their lands as vassals of the Frankish king. 5. The structure of agriculture makes it difficult to treat the peasant drive for noble land as the harbinger of rural capitalism. 6. The subjugated population of Messenia tilled the land as serfs, helots. 7. They went out of the door chatting about having seen the land as the early settlers found it. 8. We want to preserve as much open land as possible. 9. The central bank will provide special loans, and the banks will pledge the land as security. 10. The common law does not regard land as capable of being owned. |